Orature (Volume E)

• 1850 world literacy rate: 10 percent

• 1920s world literacy rate: 28 percent

• Pio Zirimu

• agrarian versus urban society

• Grimm brothers, fairytale preservation

• colonization—control or conservation?

• Willem Bleek, Kung peoples

Background

Germany: Three Spinners

England: Tom Tit Tot

Ireland: “A Donegal Fairy” and “The Brewery of Egg-Shells”

Anansi Stories: Ghana, Jamaica, United States

U.S. Slave Story

U.S. Slave Spirituals and Secular Songs

Malagasy Wisdom Poetry

“Since the rule of these despotic chiefs, Ka-u has become noted as a land where everyone looks out for himself and his own family” (p. 943).

Hawaiian Folktale

Navajo Ceremony

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